December 28-30, 1954: This was the first and only
Pre-Season Jayhawk League tournament. Coach Bueltel was one of the promoters for
this event that was modeled after the old BIG 7 Conference Tournament that was
held in Kansas City each year.

Date

TEAM

COACH

December-54

1

HASKELL

Tony Coffin

2

Hayden

3

Wamego

4

Holton

5

Effingham

6

Paola

7

Seaman

8

Osage City

ST. Agnes Invitational
Shawnee Mission, KS

December 20-21, 1957:
History of this tourney is not known. This was the only year Hayden
participated. Names in parenthesis are the current names of various
schools.

December-57

1

ST. AGNES-K.C. (MIEGE)

Paul Martel

2

Hayden

3

Olathe (Olathe North)

4

St. Joseph-Shawnee (Aquinas)

Junction City High School Invitational

January 20-21, 1961: History of this
tournament is not known. This was the only year Hayden participated.

January-61

1

HAYDEN

Ken Bueltel

2

Junction City

3

Manhattan

4

Atchison

Highland Park Christmas Tournament

This was the first regular season
tournament that Hayden participated in. Highland Park dedicated their new gym in
the 1951-52 season and all the games were played at Highland Park. This
tournament was sometimes referred to as the Topeka Holiday Tournament. In 1959,
the tournament used a round-robin format.

December-51

1

HAYDEN

Al Lee

2

Highland Park

3

Lawrence

4

Atchison

5

Marysville

6

Haskell

7

Seaman

Dec/Jan
1952-53

1

HIGHLAND PARK

2

Topeka High

3

Lawrence

4

Atchison

5

Ottawa

6

Seaman

7

Hayden

7

Washburn Rural

Dec/Jan
1953-54

1

TOPEKA HIGH

Jack Dean

2

Ottawa

3

Lawrence

4

Atchison

5

Highland Park

6

Hayden

7

Washburn Rural

8

Seaman

December-54

1

MANHATTAN

2

Topeka High

3

Ottawa

4

Highland Park

December-55

1

TOPEKA HIGH

Jack Dean

2

Manhattan

3

Ottawa

4

Highland Park

5

Winfield

6

Hayden

7

Emporia

8

Leavenworth

December-56

1

TOPEKA HIGH

Jack Dean

2

Highland Park

3

Emporia

4

Ottawa

5

Leavenworth

6

Manhattan

7

Independence

8

Hayden

December-57

1

TOPEKA HIGH

Jack Dean

2

Manhattan

3

Highland Park

4

Ottawa

5

Washington-K.C.

6

Leavenworth

7

Emporia

8

Rosedale-K.C.

December-58

1

OSAGE CITY

Bob Burd

2

Hayden

3

Emporia

4

Manhattan

5

Turner-K.C.

6

Highland Park

7

Ottawa

8

Washburn Rural

December-59

1

HAYDEN (3-0)

Ken Bueltel

2

Washburn Rural (2-1)

3

Highland Park (1-2)

4

Seaman (0-3)

Topeka Holiday Tournament

This is the tournament that later became
known as the Topeka Invitational Tournament. I always thought these were
considered the first Topeka Invitational games - but some sources cite the 1965
tournament as the first Topeka Invitational Tournament. These tournaments
were held during
Christmas break period. Highland Park was the host for the 1961 contests,
Topeka West ran the tourney in 1962 and Hayden served as host in 1963 but the
games were played at Topeka High.

December-61

1

HAYDEN

Ken Bueltel

2

Highland Park

3

Topeka High

4

Topeka West

December-62

1

TOPEKA HIGH

Jack Dean

2

Hayden

3

Highland Park

4

Topeka West

December-63

1

HAYDEN

Ken Bueltel

2

Ward-K.C.

3

Lawrence

4

Topeka West

5

Topeka High

6

Washington-K.C.

7

Miege-K.C.

8

Highland Park

Topeka Invitational Tournament

This tournament is always played in the middle of January. Hayden dropped out
of this tournament after 1999.